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Re:The Core of Rust by TylerE on Thursday August 21, 2025 @03:30PM (#44977006)
The venue bigger issue with rust as that the compiler is so bitchy it is actively hostile to incremental add-a-line-at-a-time incremental development.

Especially unused variables being a hard compilation error, not a warning.

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Re:The Core of Rust by estebank on Thursday August 21, 2025 @03:54PM (#44977284)
Unused variables are a warning:

https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=debug&editio...

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Re:The Core of Rust by Ar-Curunir on Thursday August 21, 2025 @04:22PM (#44977584)
What? Unused variables are warnings in Rust. Are you thinking of Go?
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